Inc Blackstone Audio
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English
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Shares the author's experiences of working with the elderly and the story of a unique nursing-home cat whose uncanny, apparently precognitive vigils at the sides of residents who are about to die has enabled staffers to administer patient care and noticeto loved ones.
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Winter Street Inn novels volume 1
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English
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A family Christmas gathering at Kelley Quinn's Nantucket inn is thrown into turmoil by his four adult children's personal dramas and the discovery of his second wife's infidelity.
23) Leaves of grass
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English
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A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century.
Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems, the most famous of which is "Song of Myself"; however there are many others in the collection that display his poetic ability equally well, such as "I Sing the Body Electric", "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", and his homage to the assassinated Abraham...
Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems, the most famous of which is "Song of Myself"; however there are many others in the collection that display his poetic ability equally well, such as "I Sing the Body Electric", "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", and his homage to the assassinated Abraham...
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Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When a boy with horns on his head wakes up in the town of Fairfold, where humans and fae exist side by side, Hazel is swept up in new love, shifts her loyalties, feels the sting of betrayal, and makes a sacrifice to the faerie king.
25) Dead anyway
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Arthur Cathcart novels volume 1
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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After surviving being shot by a gunman who killed his wife, Arthur Cathcart has his sister--a doctor--declare him dead so that he can assume a new identity and track down his wife's killer.
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Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2013
Edition
[Library ed.], unabridged.
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English
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In this work the author asks the difficult questions of these combatants, many of whom he first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq and others he sought out from different wars: What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what's right? What can you never forget? He compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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As the six Cynster families gather together for the holidays at snowbound Casphairn Manor in Scotland, Claire Meadows, widow and governess to Gabriel Cynster's daughter starts a relationship with tutor Daniel Crosbie.
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English
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A New York Times bestseller
Now also an Oscar-nominated documentary
In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater, takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies.
Drawn from the ranks of the...
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English
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From the bestselling author of The Passenger, a novel about three college women who are united by a single night that shaped all of them that will "keep you captivated from beginning to end" (Town & Country) ¶ "Whip smart and cunning, deeply funny and profoundly moving . . . A knockout."—Megan Abbott, author of The Fever ¶ When college roommates Anna and Kate find Georgiana passed out on a lawn, they wheel her to...
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Velva Jean novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places—soon to be a Netflix film starring Elle Fanning—comes a spellbinding story of a secret mission and dangerous passion in World War II Paris.
After delivering a B-17 Flying Fortress to Britain, an American volunteers to copilot a plane carrying special agents to their drop spot over Normandy. Her personal mission: to find her brother,...
After delivering a B-17 Flying Fortress to Britain, an American volunteers to copilot a plane carrying special agents to their drop spot over Normandy. Her personal mission: to find her brother,...
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English
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National Book Award Winner: The definitive account of Nazi Germany and “one of the most important works of history of our time” (The New York Times).
When the Third Reich fell, it fell swiftly. The Nazis had little time to destroy their memos, their letters, or their diaries. William L. Shirer’s sweeping account of the Third Reich uses these unique sources, combined with his experience living...
When the Third Reich fell, it fell swiftly. The Nazis had little time to destroy their memos, their letters, or their diaries. William L. Shirer’s sweeping account of the Third Reich uses these unique sources, combined with his experience living...
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Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
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In this inspiring memoir, the award-winning playwright and bestselling author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day reminisces on the art of juggling marriage, motherhood, and politics while working to become a successful writer. In addition to being one of the most popular living playwrights in America, Pearl Cleage is a bestselling author with an Oprah Book Club pick and multiple awards to her credit. But there was a time when such stellar...
33) Private Vegas
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Private Detective Agency novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds--especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides--and then he teaches them how to kill. Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his...
34) Burn
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English
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Back home in New York, Detective Michael Bennett investigates a burnt body left where a strange party had been held in a condemned building.
35) Gone again
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 12
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English
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In this electrifying and fast-paced tale of suspense from the bestselling author of the acclaimed Cash Landing, Cane & Abe, and Black Horizon, Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck takes on his first death-row client since The Pardon in a case as twisty as it is shocking.Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenager's disappearance, ex-con Dylan Kyle was stopped for drunk driving. An article of Sashi's...
36) Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
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English
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Finding Ultra is Rich Roll's incredible but true account of achieving one of the most awe-inspiring midlife physical transformations ever.
One cool evening in October 2006, the night before he was to turn forty, Rich experienced a chilling glimpse of his future. Nearly fifty pounds overweight at the time and unable to climb the stairs without stopping, he could see where his current sedentary lifestyle was taking him. Most of us look
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Genius Files volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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On a cross-country vacation with their parents, twins Coke and Pepsi, soon to be thirteen, fend off strange assassins as they try to come to terms with their being part of a top-secret government organization known as The Genius Files.
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2009
Edition
Unabridged.
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English
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In these real-life stories, Rick Bragg evokes the hardscrabble lives of those who live and die by an American cotton mill. In 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Across the South, padlocks and chains bound the doors of silent mills. It seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville Alabama, that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The mill had become almost a living...
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2009
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Guiliano shares the insights and experiences learned through her own thirty-year business journey from novice translator to CEO of the champagne house Veuve Clicquot North America. Whether it's balancing career and personal life, the pros and cons of risk taking, qualities of leadership, branding, mentoring, enlightened self-interest and the undervalued art of communicating, personal relationships, passion, etiquette, or style, Guiliano gives us a...
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English
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While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Cantor, who's just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her alone to care for her son with Asperger's, witnesses a freakish accident. A car ahead of her careens down a hill and slams into a tree. Stopping to help, she discovers the driver dead-- and a satchel stuffed with a half a million dollars. That money could prevent her family's ruin and keep her special needs son in school. In an...